Congratulations on taking your Big First step towards getting Career Clarity!
I'm so glad you're here, and are using all the resources available to find your way towards Career Clarity. I'm Lisa Lewis Miller, and this page is chock-full of the worksheets, podcasts, and supplemental tools that can help you navigate your journey up Mount Fulfillment.
Let's kick things off right: all these free tools are amazingly helpful, but might be overwhelming all at once. So, let's identify where you are in the book (or in your own Career Clarity implementation journey) and use the tool that best matches up with your needs right now:
access all your free book BONUS tools and resources:
FOR READING CAREER CLARITY IN GROUPS:
CAREER CLARITY BOOK DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
This work is great to do by yourself, but can be even more insightful and enjoyable when done in a small group. If you are reading Career Clarity with others, download this free book group discussion guide to help prompt meaningful, lively discussions about your own unique paths up Mount Fulfillment.
Chapter 3
THE CAREER FULFILLMENT DRIVER ASSESSMENT
If you're not sure which of the 4 Pillars of Career Fulfillment is the biggest driver of satisfaction for you right now, this short quiz can help you get clear. It will walk you through several choices for most important values, and your responses will identify the top need in your career at the moment.
Chapter 4
THE 5 STAGES OF CAREER GRIEF
To help you deeply tap into all the emotions you've felt around work, listen to this podcast about this part of the book to dive more deeply into all the feels.
Chapter 8
BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR ENERGIZING STRENGTHS
There are loads of ways to understand your Strengths and Gifts better -- some are intuitive, and others use assessments and external tools. While we love a good CliftonStrengths by Gallup (AKA StrengthsFinder) Top 5 Themes report, we noticed that it tended to give you information on your current competencies more than on your biggest energizers. Because of that, we partner with the certified strengths assessment instrument registered with the British Psychological Society called the Strengthscope to give an assessment and debrief on your energizing, intrinsically motivating Strengths. (In fact, we're so insistent upon energy and enjoyment that we even call your Strengthscope "strengths" your Energizers.) If you want to take a Strengthscope assessment with a certified facilitation, check out the link below!
Chapter 10
PERSONALITY ASSESSMENTS
To dive deeply into understanding your own personality, there are a few assessments and modalities out there that can be particularly helpful. A few of my favorites (which are all free!) are linked below:
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (16 Personalities)
- Enneagram (with wings)
- (And, go read the Enneagram Institute profiles of each personality here!)
- The 5 Love Languages (Note: we recommend using the identification/knowledge quiz about your top love languages to help you interpret and establish how you want to be appreciated/treated in a professional setting -- we do not recommend the book or the larger body of work because of exclusionary and biased language.)
Other personality assessments can help add further color or clarification to who you are, but these are a great start. Feel free to expand your knowledge with paid personality assessments like the DiSC, Johnson O'Connor inventory, or more!
Chapter 13
THE WORK FULFILLMENT ASSESSMENT
If you're not sure which of the 4 Pillars of Career Fulfillment is the highest priority for you right now, this short quiz can help you get clear. It will walk you through several choices for most important values, and your responses will identify the top need in your career at the moment.
Chapter 14
THE CREATIVITY THROUGH RECOMBINATION WORKSHEET
Brainstorming the answer to "if not this, then what?" can be tricky to do by yourself. This method of creative idea generation will help you use what's working and feeling good to map ideas for what you could move into next. If you thought the template in the book was helpful and want to do the exercise on your own, use this worksheet to guide your creative generation process!
Chapter 20
STRATEGIC OUTREACH MESSAGES
If sending cold (or even warm) outreach messages gives you the heebie-jeebies and you'd rather not, I hear you. However, there are many ways to send a message that will be well-received and likely to get a positive response. If you're interested in getting more support along the way in your journey, listen to this episode of the Career Warrior podcast with Lisa Lewis Miller (back then, just Lisa Lewis :-) about how to structure an outreach message and how to make yours as effective as possible
MORE BONUSES FOR YOU!!
CAREER CLARITY CERTIFIED COACHES
Want the expertise and experience of a certified Career Clarity coach to help guide you through your implementation? We have some incredible individuals who'd love to support you on your journey:
- Kelley Shields - the coach for folks looking for practical, tactical solutions and next steps in their career change
- Jenn Smith - the personal branding expert with a decade of HR experience who can help you diagnose what's going wrong in your job search
- Brian Newkirk - the diversity, equity, and inclusion champion who helps people of color step into their power
- Kate Solis Silva - the coach for anybody wanting to develop their leadership identity and leave imposter syndrome behind
- Lisa Lewis Miller - the book's author and creator of the Career Clarity framework
- Nicki Dunnavant - the fiercely feminist coach who helps you negotiate for what you're worth, currently out on maternity leave!